Lift Assistive, is a server-based tool that instantly generates a "text-only" view of your content.. It removes the need to create, store and maintain a "text-only" version. "Text only" versions are often used by screen readers and mobile devices.
The product is available for NC State University pages and NCSU must be part of the domain name. As the tool will only parse domains that have been registered by NC State, effort has been made to register all known NC State domain names. If the tool does not parse your page please contact help@ncsu.edu to register your domain.
Lift Assisitve works with static pages, dynamic pages (e.g. asp, jsp) and pages produced using a database or a Content Management System. To deploy the tool the following HTML code is placed on the page or pages that need to be transcoded into "text only" versions..
For single page or pages without templates place this code on every page with "Text Only" link:
Code for single page or pages without templates with a"Text Only" link
<a href=" http://assistive.usablenet.com:8080/tt http://ncsu.edu/page.html>Text Only</a>
Where http://ncsu.edu/page.html is the URL of the page containing the text-only link (i.e. the one that you are editing);
http://assistive.usablenet.com/tt is the name of server where LIFT Assisstive Tool is running and :8080 is the port address.
To use with pages created with templates, place this code within the template:
Code to be included in templates
<a href="http://transcoder.usablenet.com:8080/tt" >Text Only</a>
Once the visitor selects a "text only" version, they will remain on the "transcoded" view of the pages within the domain.
The manual is available at http://assistive.usablenet.com/tt/admin-help.html#links.
Help is available at http://assistive.usablenet.com/tt/user-help.html
